General Reports

[Dogers69]

Well looks like from the news today they have gotten the migrants to move and are starting to clean up the old camp. So I'd imagine at least by the end of the month it being open again to cross.

There's definitely no need for that migrant camp. Yesnunder Trump it was a good visual to portray suffering. Right now though everyone in the world is allowed in except Mexicans. Nobodybstays in that camp more than 35 days. A Haitian or African asylum seeker told me anyone who shows up movesnto usa in 35 days. They even fly you to whatever city you want to live in. So there's nonneed for the camp.

[Gaijin Gigolo]

Wasn't sure where to put this but here we go. I've had tremendous success picking up women in SE Asia, especially Philippines, just by chatting them up in the shopping malls there. Any such luck to be had in Tijuana? I'm not really into the bar scene at all and places like Hong Kong are pretty much the opposite of what I'm looking for. Thanks in advance for any advice. Attached is a sample of the type of girl one can easily score in the malls of Cebu or Manila.

[NiceFirst]

Do we still have to pay $30 for a short term 7 day FMM?

[Dogers69]

Last week the price of my hotel on revolucion went up another 5 dollars a day. So I looked at my 2nd 3rd choice hotels and they went up again. I decided to stop staying at these hotels as much. Maybe 1 day a week instead of 4. I'm just not seeing the value at this point. I can stay in San Diego hotels that I can park for free at in beautiful neighborhoods like encinitis for 55 to 65 dollars a night. I do believe its the flood of migrants needing the hotels. A guy from Africa said the USA makes them stay in Tijuana for 35 days once they walk to the border and ask to enter USA. I found him a 12 dollar hotel that normally only go to on Saturday nights when I miss the trolley.

[NiceFirst]

Is paying $30 still required for a short term FMM? Or the 7 day FMM is again free?

[Artisttyp]

Hello Sol12,

Your buddy will need a prescription to purchase valium in Mexico. My recommendation is to have him go to a pharmacy such as Farmacia Similares, where he can get a consultation from a doctor on the premises for around 5 dollars. He will need to convey why he needs the valium and chances are that the doctor will write him a prescription enabling him to purchase the valium there or at any other pharmacy. Upon returning back to the USA, he will just need to declare the valium and show the prescription. Hope this helps.

Farmacia Similares doesn't sell valium from my recollection nor do the doctors in those consultorios have permission to write prescriptions for Valium. I had to go to the doctor next to the old Mc Donalds next to Ped West. I forgot his name but I brought him an empty brown prescription bottle and for $20 and a short chat I was good to go. Some farmacias would not fill it for me. It was an interesting experience. I wound up filling it in the Super Soriana in Plaza Rio. I had to show my passport and DL for verification.

[RikyMichaels7]

Have buddy asking how easy it isto get in Mexico and if he needs a prescription? I don't visit the pharmacies in Mexico for those things so I thought to ask here. Thanks for any info.

Hello Sol12,

Your buddy will need a prescription to purchase valium in Mexico. My recommendation is to have him go to a pharmacy such as Farmacia Similares, where he can get a consultation from a doctor on the premises for around 5 dollars. He will need to convey why he needs the valium and chances are that the doctor will write him a prescription enabling him to purchase the valium there or at any other pharmacy. Upon returning back to the USA, he will just need to declare the valium and show the prescription. Hope this helps.

[Sol12]

Have buddy asking how easy it isto get in Mexico and if he needs a prescription? I don't visit the pharmacies in Mexico for those things so I thought to ask here. Thanks for any info.

[Sol12]

Well looks like from the news today they have gotten the migrants to move and are starting to clean up the old camp. So I'd imagine at least by the end of the month it being open again to cross.

[Captain Solo]

FAA airmen handbook requires minimum 8-hour bottle to throttle rule for both private and commercial pilots. 12 hours is way too strict. FAA may revoke pilots' certificates after three convictions for DUI / DWI moving violations within three years, if the states cooperate and provide conviction records. You will lose your state driver's license way before that.

Got to admit flying in instrument MC, in older planes without automation, requires a lot of mental alertness and hard work. Unless fully alert, pilots will likely make fatal mistakes. I was flying single instrument pilot in a high-performance twin to LAX early in the morning after a long trip, without a couple cups of coffee to wake up. Ceiling was 10 K overcast, broken layers down to 800 feet. LA approach control vectored me around the basin and put me in various holding patterns to sequence for the ILS approach. Man, that was mentally taxing early morning after a long trip. Without the new HSI and moving map, I had no idea where I was after so many turns until I finally got on the localizer beam. Don't recommend drunk or sleepy flying in busy approach areas like LAX or NY Kennedy.

I don't think CHP uses radar speed detectors anymore. They all use LIDAR gun day or night time, triggering quick bursts of laser. How will you detect and avoid those? The old K, Ka and X- band radar detectors are useless. They also follow cars and use LIDAR to confirm speed.

I did find a CHP on the left side of freeway, aiming a LIDAR gun at me from about half mile away. He nailed me so was clambering into his patrol car to chase. I stepped on the gas and quickly got off the exit a mile down the road, parked the car among hundreds in a shopping mall hehe. He drove around the parking lot looking but not finding. Sorry officer. I was patiently waiting for you and your ticket but you just did not show up hehe.

[SpeedToys]

everybody was doing 90+ MPH on freeway late at night, why pick on me?

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

I stopped drinking anytime I'm within 12 hrs of a vehicle trip when I started flying. Even a "wet reckless" where you are not DUI, but "alcohol was detected" and there was an aggravating charge involved could make a mess of your pilots certificate.

Speeding. Ya I do it. But.

https://store.valentine1.com/Store/item.asp?i=20020. *Cheaper than a 90 mph ticket with fees*.

Use a few simple rules of highway observation, and a -good- radar detector and *knock on wood* no speeding tickets in 15 yrs since I started using one. CHP Ka band I can pick up nearly 3/4 mile away on even winding roads if its pointed in your path, way more on open road. Few use X band in any state anymore, and then its few counties in those states that do. Etc.

Laser just means pull over and be polite if it goes off. Which never has. So far. *knocks on more wood*.

[StRobert]

I was in Tijuana at the weekend and I was suprised at how cold it was. I'm from Norcal and it felt colder than up here, or at least the same. I was walking around near Parque Morelos after having dinner. I wonder if there is some kind of microclimate that makes it cold because its pretty far south.

By the way, Parque Morelos is cool, they have a zip line for 50 pesos ($2. 50) which looked fun, the same thing in the US would probably cost about $100. They have a paintball field as well for about $15. There were some teenage girls going to play paintball in T shirts and I'm thinking damn, that's going to hurt like hell when you get hit.

If there are no clouds, it is colder at night. Generally the coldest temperature here in the San Diego / Tijuana area can be around 45 F, but generally in winter the temperature is between 50 F at night to 70 F during the day. I am not complaining about the San Diego climate any more because I lived in Chicago for 2 years. OMG the snow started in mid-November and lasted until mid-April! Brutal cold and snowstorms and then the summer was brutally hot and humid. It is similar in New York City. Once I spent a summer in Las Vegas the temperature during the day was 110 F and at night at midnight it was 90 F! No thanks. Only one complaint the water here in the ocean is not as warm as Waikiki in Honolulu.

[Captain Solo]

On the drive back from Tijuana over the last 5 years after midnight, I have been pulled over twice by policias at the alcohol check point on Benito Juarez right at the intersection where it splits into 3 ways into the medical lane. They usually do it on Friday night with a couple nurses sitting in a truck nearby. I had 3 or 4 beers in 4 hours, blew into their test kit and passed. I think their limit is very low, 0. 04% BAC compared to 0. 08% in California. Each time a couple cars with Mexican guys got nailed, cars impounded, wives and kids waited on sidewalk.

Have also been pulled over by CHP 3 times near the I5/805 intersection, given breath test and walk test. Each time I passed DUI tests, but was nailed for speeding and reckless driving. Hell, everybody was doing 90+ MPH on freeway late at night, why pick on me? Lucky I passed the DUI.

A noob had a DUI 5 years ago, got rejected for Global Entry. He said punishments are harsh if they catch him again with any alcohol in his system on the road. He would probably face mandatory jail time. Damn. This noob can drink. I told him to go ahead and drink, we would drive him home. He had a good time drinking and groping girls hehe. I understand CBP would overlook DUIs for GE and SENTRI after 10 years, but who knows what they would do.

Another noob would drink all night, stay until 5 AM, falling down on the street. 2 guys had to shoulder him back to the car, drove him a long way back to where he parked, only a couple miles from his home. I suggested he book UBER home and come back the next day to pick up the car but he insisted to drive his high-performance car home. He should know cops in suburban towns have nothing to do late at night and they watch cars on their streets like hawks. Just a little weaving would piss them off. They would make up all sorts of probable causes to pull cars over to check. That night he would definitely get nailed for DUI if pulled over, or run into something on the way home. Lucky he got home safe, but I wish he would never push his luck again just so he can party with the girls and wingmen every week.

Be careful, be safe, stay alive, live free to have fun with hot girls.

[Dogers69]

Hello all,

I just got back from Tijuana. My passport expires the end of this month so I sent it in for renewal two weeks ago. Passport Card also had to be sent in. I decided to purchase the 180 day tourist paper at the border the last time I went through with my passport card hoping it would get me through during the long wait for my new passport to return.

Yesterday I walked through the Mexican citizen line, showed the guy my paper, he checked the date and sent me on through. I still have my NEXUS card so coming back to the states was a breeze also.

Just sharing this in case any of you get into a similar situation and don't want to miss out on the Tijuana wonders while you are waiting..

So essentially if you pay the 6 month pass you may avoid the daily $20 dollar fee. But of course you need to buy that 6 montg pass while you still have that passport. I have not been stopped in last 30 times walking in since Thanksgiving. But I dint bring suitcase I have 1 backpack not hiking backpack.

[SpeedToys]

Based on what you're saying it sounds like your passport hasn't expired yet though. You've just sent it in for renewal. You also already bought a 180 day FMM that was still good. Wouldn't necessarily expect you to be hassled in that situation. Even with you not having your physical passport.

My PP is out for replacement. And the -stopped- me on foot from entering on Thursday.

Even with my other paperwork, cards.

They eventually let me in, no FMM required either.